Match-box holder.



B. F. KLEIN.

' MATCH BOX HOLDER.

APPLIOATIOQ FILED MAR.10, 1910.

193M220 Patented Aug; 27,1912.

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MATCH-BOX HOLDERQ 1910. Serial mi; 548,334.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. KLEIN,

.a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Match-Box Holders, of which the following is a full,clear, concise, and exact description, reference beinghad to theaccompanying drawings, forming I 1 one of said incisions being longerthan the a part of this specification.

My invention relates tomatch box holders and is particularlyconcernedwith that class of devices wherein the holder proper isin.

the formof a placard adapted to bear advertising matter of any suitabledescription.

It is the object of my invention to pr ovidesuch a holder which, thoughnot necessarily so, may be formed of pasteboard oi the usual thicknessemployed for advertising" placard purposes.

The novelty of my invention resides in the means for attaching the matchbox td the support, the particular means being consistent with mypurpose to secure a simple etficient and inexpensive device.

The type of match box which the holder of my invention is adapted tosupport is the ordinary telescope or slide match box, ordinarily calleda safety match box, such as are usually discarded when their contentshave been exhausted.

The holder of my invention is in the form of a sheet, as hereinbeforestated, and is pre pared for the reception of the match box by a simpleoperation of incision and without cutting away any part of the sheet.Once in place, the match box is held open by frictional engagement sothat the matches may be readily removed therefrom and, as a whole, isheld positively and with sufiicient rigidity to warrant striking thematches on the prepared roughened surfaces usually provided on the sidesof the box.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the holder, showing the matchbox in place; Fig. 2 is ,a perspective view of the holder, the match boxbeing-removed; Fig. 3 is an elevational View of the holder, twopositions of the box being indicated in dotted lines; Fig. 4 is anenlarged longitudinal sectional view,takenon the plane 4, at of Fig. I;and- Fig. 5 is an elevational View of a modified form of my invention.

The holder proper is in the form of a card dinary match box so as toprovide room for any desired advertising matter, as indicated. As shownat 7, 7, the card may be provided with suitable apertures to provide forhang- As best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the card is sub ected to twoU-shaped incisions lying'in longitudinal registration with each other,

other. Such incisions leave the tongues 8 and 9, 'the'tongue 8 being thelarger of the two, and a bridge 10 which is effective in retaining thesubstantial rigidity of the card. The match box, as above stated, is ofthe ordinary type, comprising a receptacle l1 and a sleeve 12, and thetongues 8 and 9 are between the sleeve proper and the rece tacle at theback thereof, as indicated in Fig. 4:.

In placing the. .match box on-the card, the longer tongue, in thisinstance the tongue 8, is inserted in the sleeve in back of the matchreceptacle and the entire arrangement is slid upwardly on this tongueinto the upper position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.- The verticalparts of the U-shaped incision which results in the tongue 8 are of suchlengthethatthe match of the U-shaped incision which results in the othertongue. That is, the distance from the root of the tongue 8 to the topof the tongue 9 is at least as great, if not eater, than the length ofthe sleeve 12. A ter the match box has been placed in the position justdescribed, the tongue 9 is guided into the sleeve, in back of thereceptacle, and the arrangement is slid downwardly into the lowerposition shown in dotted lines in Fig, The box is brought downwardly thetongue 9, and the relative dimensions are such that whenin this positiona considerable part of the tongue 8 still lies within the sleeve of thematch box. That is, the

distance from the root of the tongue 9 to the lower end of the tongue 8.After the match box has thus been mounted in place the receptacleportion 11 may be move upwardly to expose the matches to access, but notbeyond the upper end of the tongue 9. Frictional engagement will holdthe reas far as'it will go, that is, to the root of Patented Aug. 27,1912.

6,'which is considerably larger than the orr f ,ing the card in someconvenient manner. I

of such width as to fit snugly in the sleeve box may be raised beyondthe vertical part length of the sleeve 12 is greater than the ceptaclein place, chiefly because of the introduction of the fla s between thereceptacle and its sleeve ii for no other reason, and the positiveengagement of the sleeve 12 at the lower ends of the lower incision willafiord means whereby the matches may be struck on the sides of the boxwhere the usual prepared roughened surfaces 13 are provided.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a modification whereby the incisions comprisemerely two longitudinal .cuts and one transverse cut connecting the two.In this arrangement the bridge or cross piece 10 is not provided,

card need be of any more rigidity than that of the ordinary pasteboardnow commonly employed for placard purposes.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A match box holder comprising ementially a single sheet having twoseparate longitudinally alining U-shaped incisions to leave two tonguesextending toward each other, and a transverse bridge part, the distancefrom the root of one tongue to the end of the other being greater thanthe distance. from the root of the other to the end of said first-namedtongue.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 5th day of March,A. D. 1910.

' BENJAMIN F. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. Bon'rronnn, v LEONARD W. NOVANDER.

